Hacker News: kentt

New comment by kentt in "Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors"

kentt — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:20:29 +0000

Could you help me understand the use case for this? I've used PIR and mmWave before. When would you choose tommysense vs some other option.

New comment by kentt in "Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors"

kentt — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:19:10 +0000

Fair criticism. I think the generous interpretation of "no hub" means you don't have to buy a specialized hub eg a Smartthings hub.

New comment by kentt in "Making my first robot as a software engineer"

kentt — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 14:52:14 +0000

I can't help but feeling very envious (in a nice way) of your situation with coworkers. It seems like when you had an issue, you had someone 10 steps ahead of you willing to help out, give advice, lend a part etc.

This project seemed to go as well as my side projects, but when I run into a hiccup, I wait a month for a part on AliExpress, or wander around at Home Depot looking for something that I don't know what it is yet.

Kudos to you for surrounding yourself with great people. Thanks for the write up.

New comment by kentt in "Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management"

kentt — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:46:35 +0000

Just for comparison, I've had a couple crashes in about a year of daily use. Definitely less than IntelliJ or Chrome has crashed, but more than vim.

New comment by kentt in "I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business"

kentt — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:28:40 +0000

You likely dodged a bullet by getting rejected by FE International. I went through a couple of acquisition processes with them. Almost every person I dealt with there was dishonest and unprofessional.

New comment by kentt in "Microsoft is driving users away"

kentt — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 05:26:52 +0000

> (OK he hates Apple so is pushing an alternative but a good POV)

Seem like an odd take. In the article he does say that he still uses it as a daily driver. He can't hate it that much.

New comment by kentt in "Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data"

kentt — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 20:56:56 +0000

Totally depends. It's easy to imagine a situation where responding to a noise complaint would ideally finish with a warning.

New comment by kentt in "Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild"

kentt — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:41:02 +0000

If I understand correctly, this is a vulnerability in self-hosted Bitwarden only. Is that correct?

New comment by kentt in "Apple Rankings"

kentt — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:37:00 +0000

Missing my favourite apple: Aurora. This is the best apple by far. Last long, taste is amazing (though maybe a bit too sweet after a while). I can't rarely find them. Does anyone know how to track down where apples are grown?

New comment by kentt in "Tiny"

kentt — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:16:23 +0000

I think it's a great idea. I'm a SWE and have purchased three now. It seems way easier to run 3 micro businesses than it was to deal with everything that a typical job entails. I think the risk is quite low for most SaaS products.

New comment by kentt in "Google Acquires North"

kentt — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:30:01 +0000

Yes. Each company I worked for has spent many man hours and consulting wages on SRED. The claims were 100% BS.

New comment by kentt in "Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3"

kentt — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 21:03:10 +0000

Is this mostly for using w/o i3? I feel like I'm not missing much by using regular terminal windows and letting i3 manage those windows, but I'd love to find out I'm missing something awesome.

New comment by kentt in "Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3"

kentt — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 21:01:45 +0000

I'd love to help you solve your issue with i3wm and 4k screens. I'm using i3wm on a 4k monitor for my desktop and 3k for my laptop so I should be able to help you.

New comment by kentt in "Pricing niche products"

kentt — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 03:12:39 +0000

Hi. Yes also annoyed by the state of the keyboard enthusiast communities, or rather, I just don't care about having an artisanal key or a rare keyboard, but rather RSI, efficiency, and customizability.

It sounds like you've gone down the rabbit hole with this. Could you tell me a bit about where you've landed especially wrt layout and custom programming?

New comment by kentt in "Pixel 3a"

kentt — Wed, 08 May 2019 00:42:03 +0000

Whoops I didn't even notice since it seems like new phones don't have them. My mistake

New comment by kentt in "Pixel 3a"

kentt — Tue, 07 May 2019 19:30:02 +0000

Glad to see some cheaper phones from Google. The Nexus 4 and 5 were the best phones I've had.

However, I still want a headphone jack and a smaller phone. I'll be riding out the original Pixel for as long as possible.

New comment by kentt in "I Miss Rails"

kentt — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:03:43 +0000

It's absolutely correct to say Twitter blamed their issues on Rails. It's less likely to be correct that they wouldn't need a similar major change if they had started with anything else and grew from an MVP to one of the busiest sites in the world. I personally find it doubtful that they couldn't have done it with Rails.

New comment by kentt in "PayPal vs. Stripe for small businesses in 2019"

kentt — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:19:32 +0000

I never leave any amount in my PayPal account that I'm not willing to lose. I've been flagged before which I why I do it. I was flagged for having a surge in sales, which was legitimate but meant I couldn't access my funds to service the customers who were paying me.

New comment by kentt in "PayPal vs. Stripe for small businesses in 2019"

kentt — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:17:09 +0000

I assume you are correct about the automatic withdrawal, however I was able to confirm my TransferWise account with PayPal just last week. PayPal deposited the two small txns in the Transferwise borderless US account. It took a lot longer than I expected, but it did work. I was able to withdraw from my PayPal account into the the TransferWise Borderless account (no fees yay).

Hope that helps.

New comment by kentt in "Sway 1.0"

kentt — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:22:01 +0000

> Sway includes the features of the i3-gaps patches

What is this about? The look of i3-gaps is extremely undesirable to me. Is it easy to avoid the look of i3-gaps?